PM Shehbaz visits Sajawal district to review rescue, relief activities

Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday arrived in Faqirani Jat, Oplano and other flood affected areas of district Sajawal in Sindh province to review rescue and relief activities and meet the flood affectees. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah also accompanied the prime minister. The chief secretary, director general Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), deputy commissioner and other relevant authorities will brief the premier on the relief operations, flood situation and rehabilitation of the damaged infrastructure in Sindh. Read: PM appeals to nation to donate for relief, rehabilitation of flood victims Talking to reporters during his visit to Sukkur district to assess the flood situation in Sindh, PM Shehbaz noted that the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had warned of heavy downpours but no one had anticipated that the rains would break the record of the last three decades in Sindh. “Sindh hasn’t seen devastation on such a scale before. The crops have been destroyed and the cattle perished,” he said, referring to livelihood problems for millions of people, which had been created by the rain and the ensuing floods. He announced that Rs1m compensation would be given to the families of each of the deceased. Shehbaz added that he had given a week’s time to the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) to distribute Rs25,000 to every rain-affected and displaced family in Sindh. Heavy downpour on Friday continued to pummel parts of the country already battered by calamitous floods of epic proportions, unleashing a fresh wave of death and destruction in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh provinces.  

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